News: conferences, events and seminars
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Latest events. . .
PhD Application Workshop, online from York Law School
Decertification: What can Removing Sex from Legal Personhood do? Kitchen Table Chat online from Sexuality and Law Research Cluster
But that’s what it says … Seminar with founder of theatrical jurisprudence, Honorary Professorial Fellow Marett Leiboff, online from LIRC, Universiyt of Wollongong, Australia
Book Launch: Properties of Law by Kaarlo Tuori, online from Helsinki Socio-Legal Initiative
The Centre for Climate Crime and Justice: 2021 inaugural lecture, QMUL, London
2021 Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium, online from QMUL
'Authoritarian Constitutions' Online Series: Democracy, the rule of law, and the rise of populism: ‘illiberal democracy’ within Europe, online from QMUL
QMUL Immigration LLM Annual Lecture 2021, online from QMUL
Book Launch: The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era, online from QMUL
Meet the Practitioners: 5 Conversations between key practitioners in borders, immigration and asylum law and practice from a UK perspective, online from QMUL
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
LSA Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop 2022, online and Lisbon, Portugal: call for applications
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal: submissions now open
Mental Capacity in the Context of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy, Keele University
2021
October
The Role of the International Law Commission in Shaping International Law
Date: 14 October 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
See website for details fo this free event organised by the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs.
Facilitating Minority-Refugees' Access to Refugee Rights: An intersectional approach
Date: 20 October 2021
Venue: online and in-person, SCHRR, University of Sussex, Brighton
Speaker: Isilay Taban, University of Brighton
See website for details. This event is part of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research (SCHRR) Autumn Research Series.
But that’s what it says … Seminar with founder of theatrical jurisprudence, Honorary Professorial Fellow Marett Leiboff
Date: 20 October 2021
Venue: online from LIRC, Universiyt of Wollongong, Australia
See announcement for abstract and joining details.
Meet the Practitioners: 5 Conversations between key practitioners in borders, immigration and asylum law and practice from a UK perspective
Date: 28 October 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
See website for details of this free event. This is part of the QMUL Immigration LLM and Kingsley Napley Seminar Series 2021–2022.
November
Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, power and politics
Dates: 1–5 November 2021
Venue: online exhibition hosted by the University of Worcester and University of Sheffield
See announcement for full details of keynote speakers, keynote panels and the call for papers.
Domestic Abuse during the COVID-19 Pandemic: International human rights responses
Date: 3 November 2021
Venue: online from SCHRR, University of Sussex
Speaker: Ronagh McQuigg, School of Law, QUB
See website for details. This event is part of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research (SCHRR) Autumn Research Series.
The Centre for Climate Crime and Justice: 2021 inaugural lecture
Date: 3 November 2021
Venue: School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
See website for details of this free event.
2021 Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium
Date: 8 November 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
Symposium hosted jointly by the Criminal Justice Center at Queen Mary University London, the Henry C Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science, the Ronan Institute, and the Centre for Heritage at the University of Kent. See website for details of this free event.
Decertification: What can Removing Sex from Legal Personhood do? Kitchen Table Chat
Date: 10 November 2021, 1.30–3.30pm
Venue: online from Sexuality and Law Research Cluster
Speakers: Davina Cooper and Flora Renz
Please see announcement for full details and joining link.
Fragmentation in the Field of Cultural Rights: Ways forward
Date: 12 November 2021
Venue: online and in-person, SCHRR, University of Sussex, Brighton
Speaker: Alexandra Xanthaki, Brunel Law School
See website for details. This event is part of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research (SCHRR) Autumn Research Series.
PhD Application Workshop
Date: 12 November 2021
Venue: online from York Law School
See announcement for details of this free online workshop. Closing date for workshop applications: 29 October 2021.
'Authoritarian Constitutions' Online Series: Democracy, the rule of law, and the rise of populism: ‘illiberal democracy’ within Europe
Date: 16 November 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
See website for details of this free event.
Immigration LLM Annual Lecture 2021
Date: 17 November 2021
Venue: online from QMUL School of Law
Speaker: Lora Vidovic, former Ombuds of Croatia
Please see website for details.
Book Launch: The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era
Date: 18 November 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
See website for details of this free event. The author Brenda Cossman talks about her new book.
Book Launch: Properties of Law by Kaarlo Tuori
Date: 19 November 2021
Venue: online from Helsinki Socio-Legal Initiative
See website for full details.
PhD Work in Progress
Date: 19 November 2021
Venue: online from SCHRR, University of Sussex
Cecilia Manzotti, Sussex Law School, presents 'The role and relevance of nationality status determination in asylum procedures under the CEAS and the potential impact of the “New Pact on Migration and Asylum” and Isabella Leroy, Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law, presents ‘Exceptionalism in action? The legal impacts of the COVID pandemic on the Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes of Melilla'. See website for details. This event is part of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research (SCHRR) Autumn Research Series.
British Academy UK-Poland Knowledge Frontiers Symposium on ‘Just Transitions’
Dates: between 23 November and 9 December 2021
Venue: virtual symposium from Warsaw
See anouncement for details.
Meet the Practitioners: 5 Conversations between key practitioners in borders, immigration and asylum law and practice from a UK perspective
Date: 25 November 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
See website for details of this free event.
SULC Legal Ethics / Ethics in Law Conference
Dates: 29–30 November 2021
Venue: online from Stellenbosch University Law Clinic, South Africa
See website for full details.
December
Looking Beyond Internalisation: European minority rights in question
Date: 1 December 2021
Venue: online and in-person, SCHRR, University of Sussex, Brighton
Speaker: Elizabeth Craig, Sussex Law School
See website for details. This event is part of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research (SCHRR) Autumn Research Series.
Criminalising Coercive Control: Challenges for the implementation of Northern Ireland’s new domestic abuse offence
Date 16 December 2021
Venue: online
Organisers: Dr. Ronagh McQuigg, Queen’s University Belfast, and Professor Vanessa Bettinson, Dr Montfort University, Leicester
Please see announcement for full details including confirmed speakers. This event is free but please register.
2022
February
AHRC Engaging with Government Programme: open for applications
Dates: 22–24 February 2022
Venue: Institute for Government Offices, London
This three-day course is designed to provide an insight into the policy-making process and help participants develop the skills needed to pursue the policy implications of their research. See website for details. Closing date: 28 October 2021.
April
Climate Change and the Rule of Law Conference
Dates: 31 March–1 April 2022
Venue: UCL Centre for Law and the Environment, University College London
Please see announcement for further details.
May
Mental Capacity in the Context of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy
Date: 23 May 2022
Venue: Keele Hall, Keele University
Further details will be announced in due course. This is an SLSA-sponsored event under our Seminar Scheme.
June
LSA Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop 2022: call for applications
Dates and venues: 27–30 June 2022 online; and 12 July 2022 Lisbon, Portugal, and online
See website for details. Closing date: 17 November 2021. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event.
July
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal: submissions now open
Dates: 13–16 July 2022
Venue: ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Theme: 'Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy'
Please visit website for details. Closing date for submission of abstracts: 10 November 2021. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event.
2023
May
23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023: call for papers
Dates: 24–27 May 2023
Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
Please note that this event was originally scheduled to take place in May 2021. See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2023.